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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Looks like the Hungarian bribe worked. One does what one must in politics.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What is the Hungarian bribe?

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The EU released some ten billion in aid that was frozen to Hungary, despite minimal progress on judiciary independence.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In another thread I read that the ten billion was technically never frozen in the first place, it was Hungary that had failed to do some paperwork necessary for the money to be transferred. They finally did the paperwork.

Not that I'm going to complain if Orban thinks he got bribed into agreeing to this. At this point I'm willing to see the problem of bringing Orban to heel as a lower priority than getting support to Ukraine.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Huh. Can't say I'm overly familiar with the subject, I just read about it the other day.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Me neither, but two people who have no familiarity with the subject discussing it at length is classic social media so there's nothing wrong with that. :)

[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

you can safely ignore anything reported by sky news.